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Wednesday, October 31, 2012

How to share from Google Drive to Google+

The cloud based storage system from Google Drive has just gotten a whole lot better. You can now share your stuff from Google Drive to Google+. This means that all those great presentations, open PDFs, videos and those great weekend pictures can be shared directly from your GD right to all your Google+ circles. Which means each relevant circle get go through those presentations of yours, those XL sheets and all your other creative files. You can also share directly from within Google Docs. So a spreadsheet or presentation can be shared without altering the permissions. So if you have restricted a document to only viewing then your friends will not be able to edit the same.

How to share stuff from Google Drive to Google+1. Open Google Drive2. Open the document you want to share3. Copy the file's URL from your web browsers bar4. Past the URL into the share box on Google+5. Select the circle of the names of individual people you want to share with6. Click the share button7. You're doneIf you have signed into Gmail or any other Google service. You can press the +Share button found on the top right-hand corner to share.

How to share from within a document, spreadsheet or presentation.1. From within Google Drive open the document you want to share and click the share button on the top right-hand corner of your browser window.2. You also need to make sure that the file is not marked private. It needs to be 'Public on the web' or 'Anyone with a link'.3. Next to the share link via click on Google+.4. You will now see the Google+ share box with the embedded document.5. Select the circle or people you want to share with and click the share button6. You're done